Portiere-pole.



L. F. NEAL.

PORTIERE POLE. APPLICATION mmnm 11. I915.

Pateflted July 17', 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent. 'Pajtented Julyjl'Y, 1917,,

-Application filed J u1y17, 1915. Serial No. 40,473.

To all'wkom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS "F. NEAL, "a citizen of the United States, residing at Hemet, in the county of Riverside and State of California, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Portiere- Poles and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which .it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in poles for portieres, curtains and similar draperies.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of portiere and curtain poles and to provide a simple, inexpensive and practical pole of strong and durable construction adapted for hanging portieres, curtains and other draperies and capable of eliminating hooks, pins, rings, stretchers and similar devices and of enabling portieres, curtains, and the like to hang close to the top of a door frame or casing and fit snugly at the sides thereof.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing 7 Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a portiere pole constructed in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same,

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

' In the accompanying .drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention 1 designates a cylindrical casing forming the body of the curtain pole and constructed of sheet metal and provided at the bottom with a longitudinal slot or opening 2 through which the portiere 3 or other drapery extends. The casing is provided at opposite sides of the slot or opening 2 with longitudinal flanges 4 located within the casing and diverging upwardly to form a tapered recessor seat to receive a fillerrod 5 preferably wedgeshaped in cross section to conform generally to the configuration .of the taperedrecess or seat, so asto clampmore effectually the portiere or other'drapery between the side flanges 4. The interior longitudinally disposed side flanges have their longitudinal edges 6 fitted against the sides of the casing-landthey may be secured tolthe same by any suitable means. The hollow pole or teasing may be constructed of any suitable material and the cheaper ones will be made of wood--and 'may'beof any desired shape, either square, triangular or round.

The rod 5 which is preferably constructed of wood is adapted to have the portiere 3 or other drapery folded over it as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing and in practice the drapery will be secured to the rod by brads 7 or other suitable fastening devices to hold the portiere or other drapery in a proper stretched condition on the rod 5. The rod with the portiere on it is readily introduced into the casing at one end of the same and the weight of the portiere will draw the rod and the folded end portion of the said portiere tightly into the seat or recess between the upwardly diverging flanges 41. By this construction the rod and the portiere will be firmly held in such position.

The casing is provided at each end with a metal cap 8 having a peripheral flange 9 and provided with a tapered recess 10 extending inwardly from the periphery of the cap at the bottom of the casing and adapted to permit the portiere pole to be readily placed on projecting supporting pins, not shown, whereby the pole is securely supported in position. By this construction the pole may be readily placed on and removed from the supporting means. WVheI'e long curtain poles are employed the casing may be provided at the center with a ring 12 having an eye 13 and adapted to be connected with the door frame or casing or window frame or casing at the top thereof. The caps besides serving as hangers or sup porting means are adapted to retain the rod in the hollow casing.

What is claimed is 1. A device of the class described including a hollow casing provided at the bottom with a longitudinal slot or opening and having inner inclined side faces diverging upwardly from the said opening and forming a downwardly tapered space or. seat ing a hollow casing provided at the bottom.

with a longitudinal slot or opening and having inner inclined side faces diverging upwardly from the saidopening and forming adownwardly, tapered space or seat and a rod approximately triangular in cross section and tapered downwardly, said rod be ing arranged within the said space or seat and coacting with the inclined faces thereof for-holding a portiere or other drapery, and end caps fitted on the ends of the casing and provided with upwardly tapered openings extending from the bottoms of the caps and through the flanges thereof and terminat- 7 tom with a longitudinal slot or opening and having integral interiorly arranged longitudinal flanges extending upwardly from the opening at opposite sides thereof and fitted at their upper edges against the interior of the casing midway between the top and bottom of the same to form a downwardly tapered space or seat and a filler rod arranged within the said space or seat and adapted to have a portiere or other drapery folded on it and substantially filling the said space or seat so that said flanges act to clamp the portiere or other drapery on the filler rod.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS F. NEAL.

Witnesses:

ELLEN C. BRow-N, DORIS M. BROWN.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

